PDF Converter & PDF Tools
PDF describes a page as a fixed arrangement of text, vector graphics and images. That is what makes it reliable for sharing finished documents, and what makes it awkward to edit — it stores positioned glyphs, not paragraphs.
These tools use pdf.js to read and render PDFs and pdf-lib to write them, both running in your browser. Contracts, invoices, medical records and anything else confidential stay on your device.
Most used pdf converters
PDF tools
Operations that change a file without changing its format.
Flatten PDF Form
Lock a filled-in form so the answers become part of the page.
Open toolSplit PDF
Break one PDF into separate files by page range, chosen pages, or a maximum file size.
Open toolCompress PDF
Shrink a PDF by re-encoding its images and re-packing its streams. Text, links and form fields are left exactly as they are.
Open toolExtract PDF Pages
Pull the pages you want into a new PDF, together or one file each.
Open toolAdd Watermark to PDF
Stamp text across every page — diagonal, centred or tiled.
Open toolRemove PDF Metadata
Clear the author, title, producer and timestamps from a PDF.
Open toolUnlock PDF
Remove the password from a PDF you can already open — you supply the password.
Open toolProtect PDF
Add a password to a PDF so only people you tell can open it — AES-256, set in your browser.
Open toolExtract Text from PDF
Get the text out of any PDF or scan — read directly where the page has text, recognised where it is an image.
Open toolExtract Images from PDF
Save every embedded picture from a PDF as a separate image file.
Open toolAll pdf conversions
24 supported conversions. Every one is a working converter, not a placeholder.
PDF formats explained
Portable Document Format
Fixed-layout documents that look identical everywhere.
Best for: Sharing documents · Printing · Contracts and forms
Your PDFs are not uploaded to a server
Most online converters copy your file onto their own computer, convert it there and send it back — that copy is what “upload” means, and it is the part nobody explains. Nothing here does that. PDF is the format people use for exactly the documents they would not hand to a stranger. Every tool on this page runs inside the browser you are reading this in, so the file is never transmitted, never stored and never seen by anyone. Turn off your Wi-Fi and convert something anyway if you want to watch that be true.
What people actually convert here
Bank statements
account numbers, balances, every payee you have
Signed contracts
your signature, and terms you may be under NDA about
Tax returns
income, dependants, tax file or social security numbers
Passport and visa scans
the single most useful document for identity theft
Why PDFs are hard to edit
A word processor document stores structure: this is a heading, this is a paragraph, this is a list. A PDF stores the outcome: this glyph at these coordinates, in this font, at this size.
Converting a PDF back to an editable document therefore means inferring structure that was never recorded — grouping glyphs into lines, lines into paragraphs, and guessing which lines were headings from their relative size. It works well for straightforward prose and poorly for multi-column layouts, forms and complex tables.
Scanned PDFs contain no text
A scanned document is a stack of photographs wrapped in a PDF. There is no text layer at all, which is why you cannot select or search the words in it.
Text extraction on such a file correctly returns nothing, and FileTools360 says so rather than handing back an empty file. Optical character recognition is what you need — it reads the pictures and produces text, with accuracy depending heavily on scan quality.
Why compressing a PDF sometimes does nothing
PDFs are large for different reasons. If the bulk is high-resolution images, re-encoding those images shrinks the file dramatically while the text is left exactly as it was. If the bulk is text and vector graphics, it is already efficiently stored and there is little to remove — which is why a text-heavy PDF barely moves, and why FileTools360 hands back the original rather than manufacturing a percentage.
Because this approach rasterises pages, it also costs you selectable text, links and form fields. FileTools360 keeps your original rather than handing back a file that is larger or worse than what you started with.
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